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bartcopp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @bartcopp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

@koen_hufkens onpopulaire mening mss, maar ik vind het ongepast & wansmakelijk dat ze zo uitspraken doet 'voor [...] de queers'. De regenboogvlag (queer) moet een zo groot mogelijke paraplu zijn. Dat je me als gay man niet queer genoeg vindt is al niet ok, maar welk signaal stuur je naar trans […]

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bartcopp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @bartcopp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

The other time me and my dad took some photos of the ISS is already 10 years ago (July 2016). This might be a nice moment to re-post that (given that I posted that on Twitter, back in the day, and thus would otherwise probably be lost in the mists of time/the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A picture of the ISS, again taken from my backyard, this time from 2016. Somewhat blurry, small, and chromatic aberration abound, but the structure is clearly visible with a central module, and on the top and bottom solar panels attached. The left part of both panels is clearly more visible than the right parts.

Canon 60 attached to a Meade LX200 (D = 10” f/10), ISO 1600, 1/2000.

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bartcopp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @bartcopp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

Had some fun taking pictures with my dad of the ISS transit in front of the Moon tonight. (The ISS being the only satellite that still makes me happy when I can actually see it with my own eyes---I'd rather not see any satellite swarms.) Thanks to @pfsmet for […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A crescent moon, with some small bright dots (different locations of the ISS overlaid on the Moon) marking out a line through the image, clearly crossing the crescent Moon. The dots start (in time, and you can also start there in the picture) roughly at the right bottom of the picture and end (roughly) at the top left.

Photos taken with my dad's Canon 60D, a Tamron 600m@f/6.3, ISO1250, 1/1600s. The attached image is an overlay of the different photos; I some *very* quick-and-dirty cloning out of hot pixel areas after overlaying the different pictures (rather than do it the better-but-way-slower way around of first applying a hot pixel filter on each image, and only then overlaying them...).

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bartcopp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @bartcopp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

@ricci We had a televised 'Het Groot Dictee der Nederlandse Taal' which was a dictation exercise (writing down with as few mistakes a text that is being read out loud), and was too complicated for elementary school children 😅 nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groot_Dictee_… 's […]

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bartcopp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @bartcopp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

Some pictures of the aurora / northern lights above Belgium around 23h30. Seems like I was just too late for the most impressive part, but it was very impressive show nonetheless! (The most impressive picture aurora-wise was sadly when I hadn't yet taken my […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A blurry picture of a magnificent & impressive blob of green light tapering from the center of the image to the top right, above some roofs and treetops

A significantly less shaky and blurry picture of the northern lights, with a broad band of green colours at the bottom, with an upwards gradient into reddish tints. A tower crane and some rooftops protrude into the

Another in-focus picture of the aurora, a clear green tint at the bottom, and red colours in the middle, with a subtle banded structure in the reds. This time it's a mostly-unobstructed horizon: only some treetops at the bottom. Some clouds appear at the left. A trail of airplane lights can be seen in the middle.

A picture of the northern lights similar to the last one, but this time with a somehwat better composition: there's a full line of trees visible at the far bottom. In comparison with the previous picture, the reds and greens appear slightly less intense (and the airplane trails are more to the right)

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bartcopp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @bartcopp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

Friends in Belgium and Western Europe: Aurora is visible above Belgium!

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bartcopp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @bartcopp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

Somewhat annoyingly & ironically, the first victim of my policy of blocking entire IP ranges of (cloud) providers that I find scraping my website without regard for robots.txt turns out to be my own website: Let's Encrypt uses (multiple, different) cloud IPs for its HTTPS challenges... And […]

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bartcopp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @bartcopp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

@ricci Related to this, I've been wondering how concentrated the underlying (hosting) infrastructure of the fediverse is. I've started blocking scrapers more aggressively on my server, blocking entire cloud-subnets when some hosts there misbehave, leading me to block large parts of AWS and […]

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bartcopp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @bartcopp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2024

[uspol] The title of one of the final episodes of Babylon 5 keeps going through my head today: 'And all my dreams, torn asunder'... Sigh...

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